can a gigbit lan and a wifi connection be teamed as one

chemistu

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yés, just google "combine network connections" and follow the steps to set both adapters automatic metric to 15.

Steps:

Open Network and Sharing Center > Change Adapter Settings.
Go to properties of any of your active Internet connection whether it be LAN, WiFi or 3G/4G.
Select Internet Protocol TCP/IP Version 4, Open its properties, then go to advanced.
Uncheck the Automatic Metric and type “15”.

be aware though, this wont reduce lag, only increase bandwidth

 

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whats the metric 15 for? well usualy if im hardlined it wont allow me to connect via wifi? does this change this? also whatn if i had a board or addin card that had 2hardline lan would this reduce latency?
 
Short answer is you are wasting you time even looking at this if you goal is to reduce the latency to some server on the internet. All the large delays are outside your house and you can do nothing about them. Many of them are distance things that are related to the speed of light.

You can not combine wireless and wired to give you more bandwidth. The OS always picks what it thinks is a BEST connection which is what the metrics are used to help select. If they are the same it will still only select 1 with the same metric. You can to a point combine multiple ethernet ports but your router must have special feature to do this. Even if you do it does not reduce the latency and you can not use more bandwidth than you buy from your ISP. It is used in only very special cases that likely do not exist in someone home.

Lastly the gamers first stuff is as useful as all the colored leds on the motherboard. It is a marketing gimmick used to fool people who think if they put the word "gamer" on something it magically is better. It is used because the killer nic chipset do this and intel didn't want the stupid people to think only killer has some magic feature. Pretty much all it does is if you were seeding huge torrent files from your computer and you tried to play games it would give your games traffic priority. It does nothing at all if for example the torrent was running on a different machine in your house. It would be much simpler to just not run dumb stuff on your machine when you want game performance to be optimum.
 

NO for a couple of reasons.

1. What nigelivey says.
2. LAN traffic are not as sophisticated as WAN traffic, for the purpose of able to use the best path automatically. When you have 2 LAN NICs, Windows is very dumb and says, ethernet has a higher port rate so that's what I will use even though ethernet may have the worse latency.

But people often read about latency and for some reason they think they are able to fix it, but if the problem is WAN, that's ISP, there almost nothing you can do, you have very little control over WAN.
 
Not sure why you would even imply that out of all these comments. Latency on a ethernet cable is so small most machines can not even measure it and report 1ms. Wifi has random latency because of packet retransmission. There is much more overhead involved even in the best case so it will be more but you can still get close to 1ms even on wireless in perfect conditions.